Magic

this was a good movie and it was very dramatic and the puppet was just one demented thing, but anthony hopkins played a good part and burgess meredith played a nice part which he always does but overall this movie was... Full review

I recently saw this particular Twilight Zone, "The Dummy", based on an unpublished story by Lee Polk, which starred Cliff Robertson as the ventriloquist and Frank Sutton as his manager. The premise was the same; a nightclub performer who's mind is... Full review

This has to be the best killer doll movie since Chucky in Child's Play. The acting was great, Anthony Hopkins gives another excellent performance. Magic has to be one of the better horror movies of the year 1978, as the story... Full review

The ventriloquist dummy is a popular horror prop; ever since Dead of Night in 1945, the ventriloquist dummy has popped up in a number of films; and Magic is one of the most classy and high quality. However, it's not... Full review

Probably the best psychological horror film since PSYCHO...Anthony Hopkins is brilliant as a deranged ventriloquist who may or may not be in charge of his "dummy". There are some genuinely disturbing scenes in this all-but-forgotten shocker, and I would recommend it... Full review

If You Like Psyccho You Really Should See This Movie. A very diturbing movie and a great chiller and great acting also if like dolls it will really freak you out.... Full review

Anthony Hopkins (with hair) plays Corky, an earnest but failed magician who spices up his act with a ventriloquist dummy called Fats, after which he rises to almost fame.....and when his manager asks that he have a medical exam before... Full review

This somehow has become a forgotten movie which seems odd that after the subsequent success and recognition of Anthony Hopkins in Silence of the Lambs that more people didn't look back at his 1978 performance in this psychological/horror gem. William... Full review

Strangely neglected at the time of its release, this is a creepy and sort-of black humored character study of a man who, basically, splits his personality in two halves; imagine Norman Bates with a dummy fixation instead of a Mommy... Full review

This is a pretty good little suspense movie with some genuinely unnerving scenes, but what I remember most was the TV ad with Fats reciting a short, creepy rhyme then 'playing dead'. That used to send me under the bed!!!! I... Full review

Magic is fun... Finally, Dark Sky Films is taking up the mantle and releasing this great psychological horror movie on DVD in the States (it has been available overseas for years). Magic easily joins that very, very short list. ... Full Review

Of the five movies they've made together, Magic is routinely dismissed as the duo's least satisfying collaboration. However, the fragile-minded performer believes his success has less to do with his talent than with his grotesque dummy Fats. ... Full Review

The legend of the vengeful ventriloquist's doll is almost as old as the craft itself. Most famously, Michael Redgrave was haunted by his malevolent mannequin in the chiller Dead of Night, while Anthony Hopkins had similar dummy ache in Magic. ... Full Article

In "The Remains of the Day", Peter Vaughan appeared as the butler father of Stevens (Anthony Hopkins), struggling with age, not at all up to the standards he himself used to live up to as a butler. ... Full Article

By: Mr. Disgusting Even the horror genre can be broken down into different sub-genres, and while most are just plain ridiculous, Richard Attenborough's 'Magic' is truly one of the most disturbing horror pics ever made. ... Full Article

By Cam Lindsay When did clowns, dolls and dummies become such horrifying images of our imagination? It seems these once friendly entertainers of adults and children alike can't shake their bad raps after films such as Killer Klowns from Outer... ... Full Article